Shepard Hill
Shepard Hill rises to 496 m in New York. Mount Everett stands 793 m to the south-southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Berkshire Hills Sculpture Garden, a park 0.4 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 13 miles off.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America.
Wikidata Q34905758, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 496 m
How to reach it
- 12.9 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
- 24.3 mi off the Mount Greylock Scenic Byway
- 30.0 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Bald Mountain: 2.2 mi
- White Hill: 2.2 mi
- Lyon Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Kijk-Uit Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Pumpkin Hollow: 4.0 mi
- Berkshire Hills Sculpture Garden: 0.4 mi
- Circle Museum Sculpture Park: 1.2 mi
- Botham Park: 4.2 mi
- French Park: 5.1 mi
- Spencertown Public Park: 5.3 mi
- Alford Springs: 2.9 mi
- Schiffman Woods Reserve: 3.4 mi
- Alford Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.8 mi
- Egremont Wildlife Refuge: 3.8 mi
- Green River Access: 4.2 mi
- Searles Castle: 7.9 mi
- Battlesite Monument: 9.3 mi
- Rostrum: 9.5 mi
- St. John Paul II: 9.5 mi
- St. Faustina: 9.5 mi
- Circle Museum: 1.2 mi
- Gallery: 1.2 mi
- Austerlitz Historical Society: 3.6 mi
- Chesterwood Museum: 7.1 mi
- Chesterwood: 7.4 mi
- Liebowitz Letter: 6.3 mi
- Naked Lady: 6.5 mi
- Newsboy Statue: 8.0 mi
- The Third Station - Jesus Falls the First Time: 9.5 mi
- The Second Station - Jesus Accepts His Cross: 9.5 mi
- High Falls Waterfall: 8.1 mi
- Bash Bish Falls: 9.7 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 11.1 mi
- Upper Falls: 12.0 mi
- Lower Falls: 12.0 mi
- Orchard City Millage Sign: 6.8 mi
- Sheffield Covered Bridge: 11.5 mi
- Edith Wharton's Home: 11.9 mi
- balanced rock: 13.1 mi
- concrete bases: 13.1 mi
- Berkshire Botanical Garden: 8.5 mi
- Naumkeag Garden: 9.2 mi
- Walled Garden: 11.9 mi
- Heritage Garden: 14.4 mi
- The Upper Garden: 24.7 mi
- Adams Point Beach: 11.5 mi
- Oakdale Beach: 14.7 mi
- East Beach: 15.7 mi
- West Beach: 16.3 mi
- Iroquis Waterfront: 21.4 mi
- Devil’s Pulpit: 7.8 mi
- Kennedy Cliffs: 11.9 mi
- Clover Mountain: 17.7 mi
- High Rocks: 20.0 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 10.7 mi
- Pond off Chair Factory Road: 13.0 mi
- Questing: 15.4 mi
- Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 19.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.3 miles of Shepard Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Everett | SSE 164° | 793 m | 11.1 mi |
| Mount Undine | SSE 163° | 669 m | 10.1 mi |
| Harvey Mountain | NE 41° | 627 m | 5.2 mi |
| South Pinnacle | SSE 161° | 626 m | 11.1 mi |
| Mount Darby | SSE 168° | 619 m | 8.7 mi |
| Mount Sterling | S 170° | 606 m | 8.2 mi |
| Pinnacle Point | NNE 33° | 595 m | 4.5 mi |
| Tom Ball Mountain | E 79° | 588 m | 4.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:52 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:40 | 16:25 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 34 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 71 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Copake, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357589351
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 8 mi
- Stockbridge · 9 mi
- Lee · 13 mi
- Lenox · 13 mi
- Kinderhook · 15 mi
- Monterey · 15 mi
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